Re: How to block a LOT of spam (Was: RE: [cobalt-users] excessive spam)

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 July 2003 10:36, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> FYI: Something I've noticed in doing sendmail restart on my RaQ4 that
> often Sendmail doesn't restart that way. It stops, says it's restarting,
> but running:
> ps waux | grep sendmail
> I do not get the normal
> root     12503  0.1  0.3  2644 1384 ?        S    10:23   0:00 sendmail:
> accepting connections
>
> I have noticed that if instead I run:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> Then the RaQ seems to start up properly.
>
> -

If you are running mailscanner this will "break" your mailscanner since it is 
then no longer two parts (a receiving sendmail  and a sending sendmail) which 
is required for mailscanner to work.  Believe the correct way with 
mailscanner is to stop and restart mailscanner (which does sendmail also)

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